Language and Self-Transformation
Subtitle: A Study of the Christian Conversion Narrative (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521031363
Subjects: Christian conversion; Sociolinguistics; Social Science; Religion - Christian Life; Sociology; Anthropology - General; Christian Life - General; Conversion--Christianity--Case studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General
First sentence: ... and then suddenly as sometimes happens in dreams, out of the corner of my eye again I saw this frieze, a frieze you know that's stone you know with a ... sort of three dimensional ... cut, about twenty to thirty feet high [voice drops to a whisper] and on this frieze there was a picture that was a picture of a combination of Christ on the cross and a Greek athlete.